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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 106 posts.
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What happens to developers who never go into management?
What if you never take that promotion?
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I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
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Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
Executive Mandates driving Product Execution via Project Management
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Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
Over the course of GSoC’s 17 years, open source has grown and evolved, and we’ve realized that the program needs to evolve as well. With that in mind,
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OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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Dealing with the Evasive Witness
In this Lawyer Minds contributor piece, Phillip Miller discusses deposition strategies and non-cooperative witnesses. Learn more here.
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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
People who are both trustworthy and competent are most sought after when forming teams
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How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
Bring all your engineering data in one place and build dashboards in minutes
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A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure
Fear of failing is deeply rooted in shame. If we can learn to let go of shame and embrace failure, we can learn and grow in unparalleled ways.
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What do people want in a co-founder?
YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches.
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The great executive-employee disconnect
The latest Future Forum Pulse, a quarterly survey of more than 10,000 knowledge workers around the world, reveals that executives’ preference to return to the office is threatening employee satisfaction and retention, particularly for women, working parents and people of color: About the survey and key findings The…
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My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead
Magic Leap is pioneering see-through augmented reality through innovative waveguide development and manufacturing. Groundbreaking optics technologies.
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‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
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Multitasking Doesn't Work
When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once, but instead, individual actions in rapid succession.
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Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
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Is 40 the New 60?
Here's a funny story: I've been using and teaching Python for over 20 years, and designed its built-in set module, but nobody would hire me as a Python programmer when I was laid off by RStudio in February. I was "too senior" for every developer role I applied for, even when the first paragraph of my cover letter said…
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The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
How are developers supposed to manage and coordinate fast-moving, heterogeneous systems including maintenance & operations — and free themselves to build?
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Busting the 10x software engineer myth
Leaders often feel proud of their high performers. In reality, having “10x engineers“ in your software organization may be a sign of an organization that is set out to fail in the long run.
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That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
It was midnight on May 22nd, 2016 that I pushed my first commit to GitHub for a new idea. Little did I know what would happen next.
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Software projects need heroes? lessons learned from 1100 projects
Reviewed by Greg Wilson / 2021-09-10 Keywords: Code Ownership , Software Projects
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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style.
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A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”
There are many books available that deal with modernising legacy codebases. These books generally focus on how to go about understanding the legacy system, improving test coverage, introducing build automation, as well as strategies for refactoring or rearchitecting the codebase. However, Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It…
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Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
Case study of flawed conception due to requirements synthesis (slide 1 of 2)